by coming up with a topic, developing your thesis and creating an argument. View this website by Dartmouth University for tips on how to write an academic paper
Read Writing History by William Storey located in the library collection for additional tips.
Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection
What was life really like for ordinary people in other cultures throughout history? How did they raise their children? What did they do for fun? This link contains a list of books from the Greenwood series titled "Daily Life Though History" which covers arts, religion, food, literature, language, romance, rites of passage and coming of age, marriage customs, social and government structure, sickness and cures, warfare, sports and games, holidays, festivals, and more.
Presents a detailed, comprehensive examination of health and healthcare in specific time frames, ranging from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance period and to the 20th century•
Reveals how religious and political views as well as intellectual or scientific concepts of the time affected treatments and attitudes towards the victims of ill health•
Examines the special circumstances surrounding women's health, childbirth and maternal/fetal health, and infant's and children's health, across cultures and throughout history
This series of women's role, across classes, examining their lives in terms of their roles in family, work, politics, law, religion, arts and sciences, and
Audio-Visual Materials in the Library Collection:
View documentary films on your time period:
The library has many nonfiction films covering a range of historical topics. Many of these documentaries include interviews with scholars that may be used as sources in your research paper. When searching the library catalog on your topic, you can limit your results to material type: "audiovisual."
This is a series of DVDs about historical events and people from "The Last Stand of the Spartans" to" Alexander the Great Conquests"
BX1713 .S43 2007 DVD Secret files of the Inquisition D 62 .D43 2006 DVD Decisive battles. The ancient world: 13 defining moments from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to the struggle over the Persian Empire D 121 .D37 2007 DVD The dark ages : the fall of civilization, the rise of a new world order DG 89 .L4463 DVD Legions of Rome: three volume set
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections) In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online) Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books
YouTube to find documentary films Databases: Digitial Resources Commons OhioLink covers many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere,
Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theater, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world. Best of the Web with the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. Catholic encyclopedia is online encyclopedia that covers church history within the Western World, its doctrines, art and literature. Humanities WWW Virtual Library alphabetical directory of humanities topics such as archaeology, architecture, literature, philosophy with its own virtual library. llustrated History of the Roman Empire website offers a comprehensive history of the Roman Empire through essays, chronologies, photo galleries, maps, lists, timelines, and more. Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. Open Directory History: a subject directory listing History websites by region, time period and topic. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an online encyclopedia Voices of the Shuttle: a directory of Humanities websites produced and maintained by the University of California
Periodical Indexes
Academic Search Complete : Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is a comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals. View tips Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals. Film & Television Literature Index : The definitive index to film and television literature Historical Abstracts : Includes articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada) Humanities International Complete : Provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world. JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
Books and media for the Humanities film project can be located in the UA Libraries Catalog using keywords or subject headings. Search keywords by topic, time period, places, people, or event. If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search theOhioLINK Central Catalog
View a Tipsheet
Humanities Film Project
Table of Contents
Plan Ahead
Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection
Books in the library's collection:
Ref BL 74 .R36 2010 Religion and everyday life and cultureRef BL 311 .M97 2000 Myths and Legends of the world
Ref BR 95 .E8913 Encyclopedia of Christianity
Ref BR 170 . E76 2007 Daily life of Christians in ancient Rome
Ref BR 302.8 .093 1996 Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation (print and online)
Ref CB 351 .E53 2009 Encyclopedia of society and culture in the medieval world
Ref CB 351 .G743 2009 Greenwood encyclopedia of global medieval life and culture
Ref CB 359 .R455 2007 Renaissance and Reformation
Ref CT 114 .I36 2012 Icons of the Middle Ages (print and online)
Ref D 70 .A42 2009 Daily life of the pagan Celts
Ref D 135 .F73 2003 Encyclopedia of barbarian Europe (print and online)
Ref D 155 .C78 2006 Crusades : an encyclopedia
Ref DA 315 .365 2012 Encyclopedia of Tudor England
Ref DT 61 .B685 1999 Daily life of the ancient Egyptians
Ref G 1030.L6 2013 Atlas of military history: an around-the-world survey of warfare through the ages
Ref GN 333 .W67 2009 Worldmark Encyclopedia of culture and daily life (print and online)
Ref GT 31 .G74 2004 Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life : a tour through history from ancient times to the present
Ref GT 507 .E535 2013 Encyclopedia of national dress : traditional clothing around the world
Ref GT 511 .L474 2008 What people wore when : a complete illustrated history of costume from ancient times to the nineteenth century for every level of society
Ref GT 2690 .65 2013 Marriage customs of the world : an encyclopedia of dating customs and wedding traditions
Ref HQ 21 .G67125 2008 Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history
Ref HQ 503 .C85 2012 Cultural history of childhood and family
Ref HQ 1143 .W643 2004 Women in the Middle Ages : an encyclopedia
KJ 147 .J38 2009 Medieval Justice: cases and laws in France, England and Germany, 500-1500
Ref ML 172 .L67 2008 Music in the middle ages, with an introduction on the music of ancient times,
Ref TX 353 .C255 2000 Cambridge world history of food
U 37 .L46 Medieval armies and weapons in Western Europe
Suggested Book Series in our Collection:
Daily Lives Series
- What was life really like for ordinary people in other cultures throughout history? How did they raise their children? What did they do for fun? This link contains a list of books from the Greenwood series titled "Daily Life Though History" which covers arts, religion, food, literature, language, romance, rites of passage and coming of age, marriage customs, social and government structure, sickness and cures, warfare, sports and games, holidays, festivals, and more.
Health and Wellness in Daily Life- Presents a detailed, comprehensive examination of health and healthcare in specific time frames, ranging from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance period and to the 20th century•
- Reveals how religious and political views as well as intellectual or scientific concepts of the time affected treatments and attitudes towards the victims of ill health•
- Examines the special circumstances surrounding women's health, childbirth and maternal/fetal health, and infant's and children's health, across cultures and throughout history
Very Short IntroductionWomen's roles through History series
Audio-Visual Materials in the Library Collection:
View documentary films on your time period:
The library has many nonfiction films covering a range of historical topics. Many of these documentaries include interviews with scholars that may be used as sources in your research paper. When searching the library catalog on your topic, you can limit your results to material type: "audiovisual."Biography Series
History Channel
BX1713 .S43 2007 DVD Secret files of the Inquisition
D 62 .D43 2006 DVD Decisive battles. The ancient world: 13 defining moments from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to the struggle over the Persian Empire
D 121 .D37 2007 DVD The dark ages : the fall of civilization, the rise of a new world order
DG 89 .L4463 DVD Legions of Rome: three volume set
- v.1 Punic Wars
- v.1 Gallic Wars
- v.3 Roman Invasions of Britain
DG 270 .R66 2008 DVD Rome: rise and fall of an empireDK 61. R87 DVD Russia land of the Tsars: Four volume set
DL 65 .B37 2003 DVD Barbarians: Two volume set:
- v.1 The Viking and The Goth
- v.2 The Mongols and The Huns
DT 92.7 .C54 2007 DVD Cleopatra: destiny's queenU 27 .F66 DVD Foot soldier. The medieval soldier
Recommended Online Material
Online book databases or collections of e-books
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas.Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities
Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections)
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life.
Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online)
Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books
Online titles
Ancient Greece : from prehistoric to Hellenistic timesThe early medieval world : from the fall of Rome to the time of Charlemagne
Encyclopedia of the Black Death
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Gale Encyclopedia of Religion
Life in the Medieval Cloister
Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period(online Google Book)
Medieval folklore: an encyclopedia of myths, legends, tales, beliefs and customs
Medieval single women : the politics of social classification in late medieval Englan
Monarchs of the Renaissance : the lives and reigns of 42 European kings and queens
Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt
Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation
Oxford companion to military history
Oxford dictionary of the classical world
Vikings on film
Who's who in the classical world
Online Films
YouTube to find documentary filmsDatabases:
Digitial Resources Commons OhioLink covers many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere,
Titles:
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
Barbarian General
Battle of Hastings
Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire
Greek awakening : art from the 5th century BC
Legions of Rome
Medieval London : 1066-1500
Pompeii daily life of the ancient Romans
Russia: A Closer Look
Recommended Websites
Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theater, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world.Best of the Web with the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
Catholic encyclopedia is online encyclopedia that covers church history within the Western World, its doctrines, art and literature.
Humanities WWW Virtual Library alphabetical directory of humanities topics such as archaeology, architecture, literature, philosophy with its own virtual library.
llustrated History of the Roman Empire website offers a comprehensive history of the Roman Empire through essays, chronologies, photo galleries, maps, lists, timelines, and more.
Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use.
Open Directory History: a subject directory listing History websites by region, time period and topic.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an online encyclopedia
Voices of the Shuttle: a directory of Humanities websites produced and maintained by the University of California
Periodical Indexes
Academic Search Complete : Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is a comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals. View tipsArts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals.
Film & Television Literature Index : The definitive index to film and television literature
Historical Abstracts : Includes articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada)
Humanities International Complete : Provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
View a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCOHost Databases
View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCOhost databases
Online Journal Titles
E- Journal Finder : Access a list of history journals accessible from a variety of databasesList of E- JournalTitles
Essays in medieval studies
European history quarterly
Film & history
Film history : an international journal
German studies review
Historian
History of the Family
Historical journal of film, radio and television
Journal of late antiquity
Journal of world history
Renaissance quarterly
Finding Books & Media
Books and media for the Humanities film project can be located in the UA Libraries Catalog using keywords or subject headings. Search keywords by topic, time period, places, people, or event. If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLINK Central CatalogView a Tipsheet
Examples of keyword searches
Document Your Sources
Understand how to write an academic paper: View this website Dartmouth University Writing ProgramThe Smucker Learning Center's documents and information
Style Guides in the Library's collection:
Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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